HART SCHAFFNER MARX SILVER TRUMPETER MEN'S BLACK PURE CASHMERE LUXURY OVERCOAT

1970's Hart Schaffner & Marx Silver Trumpeter Top CoatAMAZING VALUE 100% VINTAGE CASHMERE(3) BUTTON CLOSURE (2) FRONT FLAP POCKETS (LINED)FULLY LINED INTERIOR (1) INTERIOR POCKETEXACT MEASUREMENTSSHOULDERS 20.5"ARMPITS 24.5"SLEEVE LENGTH 26COAT LENGTH 42.5"In 1872, Harry and Max Hart, German immigrants who arrived in Chicago as boys 14 years earlier, founded Harry Hart & Bro., a small men's clothing store on State Street. In 1879, along with brothers-in-law Levi Abt and Marcus Marx, the Harts formed Hart, Abt & Marx. By this time, the company not only sold clothing but also employed dozens of women around the city to manufacture close to $1 million worth of garments a year. In 1887, when Joseph Schaffner joined the firm, its name was changed to Hart, Schaffner & Marx. By the beginning of the twentieth century, it owned dozens of small garment factories—identified by many observers as “sweatshops”—around the city; about two-thirds of its several thousand employees were foreign-born men and women. In 1910, when its annual sales were roughly $15 million, the company became a target of one of the biggest strikes in Chicago. Hannah Shapiro, an 18-year-old Russian-born woman working at one of the Hart Schaffner shops, led a walkout in response to a wage cut. Within three weeks, about 40,000 Chicago garment workers went on strike. In 1911, Hart, Schaffner & Marx became one of the first companies to settle with the workers & signed a collective bargaining agreement